According to The Enterprise, Ayana Bean, 38, of Hyde Park, allegedly stole more than $62,000 in student financial aid refund checks while working as a financial aid adviser at Sullivan & Cogliano Training, 460 Belmont St.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case.

In addition to the Brockton site, the school has two Florida locations. They train students in office administration, medical assisting and information technology.

Prosecutors allege that between June 2011 and August 2012, Bean mishandled and stole approximately 100 federal financial aid refund checks while employed as a financial aid adviser.

According to an affidavit in the case, a student contacted the school in August 2012 to ask about the status of a financial aid check. When school officials inquired about the check, they found it had been negotiated.

A copy of the canceled check, according to the affidavit, showed that it had the student’s initials and Bean’s name endorsing the check. The student told school officials she did not sign the check nor cashed it.

A school finance director looked into other checks and found more than 100 of them with suspicious second endorsements from Bean.

The Enterprise reported that Bean faces charges for allegedly depositing 77 financial aid checks, totaling more than $62,000. Surveillance footage from ATMs show her depositing 26 of the checks, according to the affidavit.

The money was taken from accounts for 61 students, who received financial aid refund checks because the cost of attending Sullivan & Cogliano did not use their entire financial aid allotments.

She faces federal charges of theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, which carry a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.

According to Ortiz’s office, Bean has a prior Suffolk Superior Court conviction on multiple counts of uttering false and forged records and larceny.

A release from Oritz's office states: "In that case, Bean stole just under $240,000 worth of federal financial aid refund checks from two local colleges. Bean was sentenced to two years in prison; she served six months of that sentence followed by three years of probation."